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GREEL FRAME POR GARDING MACHINES. Y No. 254,301. Patented Feb. 28,1882.

UNITED STATES PATnnrr (herrena MERRILL A. FURBUSH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES A. ,FURBUSPL OF SAME PLACE.

CREEL-FRAME -FOR lCARDlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.'254,301, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed November 28, 1881. (No model.)

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The object of my invention is to permit the feeding into a second breaker or condenser carding-machine, without inconvenience, of a much greater number of ends or rovings than is now possible; and this object I attain by so constructing the frame carrying the feeding creels or spools that it will have a large capacity without exceeding proper limits as regards either size or weight, and without interfering with the proper piecing of the rovings as the spools become successively unwound and have to be replaced.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is an end view, partly in section, of my improved creel-frame, showing the relation of the same to the carding-machine 5 Fig. 2, Sheet 2, afront view of the frame; and Fig. 3, Sheet 1, a diagram illustrating the main feature of my invention.

The frame comprises opposite end plates or standards, AA, suitably connected and braced by transverse bars a at top and bottom. This frame carries a number of pairs of horizontal spool-supportin g rolls, B D, arranged vertically in two sets or series, each series comprising iu the present instance live pairs of rollers, and therollers B, forming one series, being arranged directly in advance of the rollers D, comprising the other series.

What are termed spools7 are simply cores on which the sliver or roving from the breakercard is Wound, the roving resting directly upon one of the pairs of rolls B D, so that as the latter are rotated the roving will be unwound and fed forward as fast as it is drawn in by the feed-rolls :v x of the carding-machine X. The rolls are adapted to bearings in brackets b on the end frames, A, and are of such a length that a number of spools can be arranged side by side on each pair of rolls, vertical rods c being arranged at suitable intervals between the rolls, so as to prevent the contact of adjacent spools. The rovings are drawn from the under 'sides of the spools, as shown in Fig. 3, the rovings from the rear spools being passed beneath the front spools and over the supporting-rolls of the same, and thence to the feed-rolls o f the carding-machine with the rovings from said front spools.

A Creel-frame constructed in this manner is very compact, and is adapted for the recept-ion of a much larger number of spools than creelfra mes of like size as now constructed, so that I am, without sacrilice of space, enabled to feed to the carding-machine two or three times as many ends or rovings as is now considered practicable, thus gaining in the carding-machine the valuable results of doubling and producing woolen yarns of a more uniform character than is possible with the methods at present in use. The arrangement of the spools in the frame is such that piecing of the ends can be effected entirely from the back or unobstructed part of the frame. Thus when one of the front spools is nearly unwound the attendant simply frees the end of the roving, removes the core of the spool, and allows the free end ofthe roving to fall between the rolls B and D, the rear spool being then rolled forward from the rolls D to the rollsB and the end of the first roving carried to the back of the frame and pieced to the roving of a fresh spool, which is deposited on the rolls D. This facility for piecing from the back of the frame is an important feature, as access to the front of the frame is impracticable, owing to the delivery of the rovings atthis part of the frame. The empty core is removed over the top of the rear spool by the attendant standing at the rear of the frame; or, it' the rear spool is so full of sliver that there is not room enough between it and the rolls above to permit such removal, said spool may be removed from the rolls D and held in one hand while the empty core is removed from the front rolls with the other hand.

Various means of driving the rolls B and D will readily suggest themselves to those familiar with this class of machinery. The means which I have found to answer well in practice and which I prefer to adopt are shown in Figs. l and 2, and comprise annendless chain, E, adapted to wheels F, carried by short countershafts G, turning in bearings on the brackets b IOO at one end of the frame, these shafts being furnished with worms d, which engage with wormwheels e on the spindles ot' the rolls Bv and D. The chain is kept tight by means of an adjustable friction-roll, J, and is driven by a wheel, K, on a shaft, g, the latter forming a continuation of one of the rotating shafts of the carding-machine, or being driven in any other manner which seems to be appropriate.

I have shown in the drawings acreel-frame with but two sets or series of spool-supportin g rolls; but in practice it may be found expedient to construct the frame with three or more sets of such rolls.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, in a Creel-frame, of a supporting-structure and 4drivin g ,mechanism with two sets of spool-supports, each set .comprsing-a-number of pairs of horizontal rolls, a-rran ged one pair above another, and the rolls ofoneset being in the rear ot' the rolls of the other set, as specified.

2. The combination, in a Creel-frame, of a supporting-structure and driving mechanism with two sets of spool-supports, each set comprising a number of pairs of horizontal rolls, arranged one pair above another, and the rolls of one set being inthe rear of the rolls of the other set, and so close thereto that a spool can be rolled directly from one set to the other, as specified. o

3. The combination of the supporting-structure, the two sets ot' spool-supporting rolls B D, with worm-wheels e, the endless chain E, thc shafts G, with wheels F and worms d, and the driving-shaft g, with wheel K, as set forth.

In -testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, M. AA. FURBUSH.

` Witnesses:

HARRY DRURY, .HARRY SMITH. 

